After downloading, README directs me to doc/build.html, and that just redirects to Building | Graphviz which is for the latest version and clearly is not the same as for earlier versions since the extracted download does not contain a configure executable file. The page also does not offer a way to choose a different version to show instructions for.
Sorry, we haven’t been as good at maintaining these docs as we could be. My suggestion would be to look at the scripts in the ci/ directory at that revision, that’s the actual source of truth for how we build our binary releases. I understand this is a little less helpful than a full documentation grouped by version, but we are a bit short staffed.
I think I’m misunderstanding something. AFAICT configureis there:
$ wget https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/4207231/packages/generic/graphviz-releases/13.1.2/graphviz-13.1.2.tar.gz
…
$ tar xvf graphviz-13.1.2.tar.gz
…
$ cd graphviz-13.1.2
$ ls -l configure
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 matthew matthew 987610 Aug 8 16:23 configure